Why do I have the feeling we’ve been here before? It feels like 1914 again. Events spinning out of control and none with the wit nor will to stop the coming catastrophe. Iran and Israel on a hair trigger, China threatening Japan, Turkey and Syria trading blows, the entire Middle East in turmoil. It’s like watching a black and white slide show running backwards

The RMS Titanic sank

A hundred years ago

And now in climate drear and dank

The world begins to slow

And retrograde begin the slide

To times now dim and past

In spite of our hubris and pride

The film runs backward fast

Depression, war, and now the Turks

And can you spare a dime

The slide show races through the works

Of man’s most recent climb

From barbarism on a scale

Not seen for eons gone

Atrocities beyond the pale

Attacking with the dawn

From trenches filled with rotting men

We see them being dug

Then in a flash we see again

A liner and a tug

She’s heading for the Outer Bank

The film now running slow

And there the proud Titanic sank

A mere two years ago